JP3778272B2 - Medical management tag - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a medical management tag that is attached to the wrist or ankle of an inpatient and used for personal identification (personal authentication) of the patient.
[0002]
[Related background]
When performing surgery, medical administration, etc. in a medical institution, it is extremely important to personally identify a patient in order to prevent misunderstanding of the patient and medical treatment mistake. Various methods have been proposed as means for performing such personal identification. For example, it is considered to attach a name tag describing a patient's name, blood type, etc. to the patient himself. However, in general, the amount of information that can be described in the name tag is limited, and there is a concern that the description information may be misread.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Therefore, in recent years, it is considered to use an IC card introduced in a station ticket gate system or the like. This type of IC card has a large-capacity memory capable of recording various information, and can read the recorded information in a non-contact manner by a predetermined terminal device, so that the user can easily identify the individual. Is provided. However, there is a problem for hospitalized patients to always carry the above-mentioned IC card, and there is also a problem of mistakes in the IC card itself.
[0004]
In this regard, as a personal identification system used in sports clubs (fitness clubs) and the like, an IC chip itself that forms the main part of the IC card is built in the wristband, and the wristband is attached to the wrist or the like to carry the IC card It has been proposed to eliminate the need for However, the wristband is worn repeatedly by a user every time in a sports club or the like, and there are problems in hygiene management when the wristband is repeatedly used for hospitalized patients in a medical institution. Incidentally, if the wristband containing the IC chip is discarded after use and the repeated use of the wristband is prohibited, even a relatively expensive IC chip is discarded, so that there is a problem that the running cost increases.
[0005]
The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and its purpose is not to pose a problem in hygiene management, and the running cost is low and the patient's wrist or ankle is attached to the patient's wrist or ankle. An object of the present invention is to provide a medical management tag suitable for use in personal identification (personal authentication).
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the tag for medical management according to the present invention is used for personal identification (personal authentication) of a patient attached to an inpatient,
( 1 ) Made of, for example, a cloth or flexible synthetic resin material. It is attached to the patient's wrist or ankle in an annular state so as to be removed from the patient and is destroyed by cutting with scissors. A wristband that is removed from the patient and then disposable (discarded);
( 2 ) a label provided on the surface of the wristband, on which patient information including the patient's name is written with an oil pen, etc.
( 3 ) An IC chip body in which a memory and an antenna are integrated is entirely coated or encapsulated with a heat and corrosion resistant material, and the patient's personal data is written in the memory built in the wristband , and the antenna An IC chip capable of outputting the personal data in a non-contact manner with respect to a predetermined external device.
( 4 ) The IC chip is housed and sealed in a pocket provided in the wristband, and the IC chip is taken out of the wristband by breaking the pocket and provided so as to be sterilized and disinfected. It is said.
[0007]
Incidentally, the IC chip taken out from the wristband is sterilized and sterilized, erased its write data and initialized, and then incorporated into another wristband and reused.
[0008]
Preferably, the IC chip is provided with a function of storing the number of repeated uses, and the reuse is managed according to the stored number of repeated uses.
[0009]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
A medical management tag according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic structure of a medical management tag according to this embodiment. Reference numeral 1 denotes a belt or wristband made of cloth, paper, or a flexible synthetic resin material such as vinyl chloride. The wristband 1 is, for example, a band-shaped band main body 1a having a width of about 25 mm and a length of about 150 mm, and a width of about 16 mm and a length of about 150 mm provided extending from one end of the band main body 1a in the longitudinal direction. The band-shaped fastening portion 1b has a structure in which a fixing portion 1c for inserting and fastening the fastening portion 1b to the other end portion of the band main body portion 1a is provided. Further, the fixing portion 1c fixes pieces of vinyl chloride provided in the width direction of the band main body portion 1a to both edges of the band main body portion 1a by heat welding or the like, and between the band main body portion 1a. A gap is formed through which the fastening portion 1b can be inserted. An adhesive is applied in advance to the inner side surface of the fixing portion 1c, and a protective sheet (not shown) is detachably provided on the application surface of the adhesive.
[0010]
This wristband 1 is wound around the wrist or ankle of an inpatient as illustrated in FIG. 2, and the fastening portion 1b is inserted through the gap between the piece portion forming the fixing portion 1c and the band main body portion 1a. The fastening portion 1b is adhered and fixed to the fixing portion 1c by removing (pulling out) the protective sheet in this manner, and thus, it is annularly attached to the wrist or ankle of the hospitalized patient. A plurality of holes (not shown) are provided in the fastening portion 1b and the other end portion of the band main body portion 1a, and the wristband 1 is formed using a synthetic resin rivet body inserted through these holes. Can be fixed in an annular shape. In this way, the wristband 1 attached to the patient is removed from the patient by cutting the wristband 1 with scissors or the like and destroying the wristband 1 itself, as will be described later.
[0011]
The wristband 1 is provided with a label portion 2 that is affixed to the surface of the band main body 1a or painted in white or the like. This label part 2 is an area for describing the name, blood type, etc. of a patient using oil-based ink or the like. The label 2 is printed with a headline (title) for describing the patient's name, age, date of hospitalization, name of the attending physician, blood type, etc. The patient's name, blood type, etc. according to these headings. The entry of personal information is encouraged.
[0012]
On the other hand, the wristband 1 incorporates a film-like IC chip 3. The IC chip 3 is built into the wristband 1 by, for example, storing it in a pocket portion (not shown) provided on the back side of the wristband 1 and sealing the pocket portion. The pocket portion is formed by heat-welding a vinyl chloride piece on the back side of the band main body portion 1a, for example, over the three sides thereof, like the fixing portion 1c described above. After the IC chip 3 is stored in such a pocket portion, the remaining side portion of the pocket portion is thermally welded to the band main body portion 1a, so that the IC chip 3 is hermetically incorporated in the wristband 1. .
[0013]
By the way, the IC chip 3 is, for example, a communication unit that performs non-contact data transmission between a nonvolatile memory 3a having a storage capacity of about 1 Kbyte and a predetermined external device such as a portable information terminal 4 as shown in FIG. 3b. In particular, the communication unit 3b plays a role of outputting personal data written in the memory 3a to the outside or receiving data written in the memory 3a via an antenna 3c formed of an electromagnetic coil. The IC chip 3 takes in electromagnetic energy supplied from the power supply unit 4c of the portable information terminal 4 via the antenna 3c, and generates power for driving the memory 3a and the communication unit 3b. Is provided.
[0014]
Incidentally, the memory 3a of the IC chip 3 uses a dedicated data writing device (data input terminal) mainly composed of a host computer (not shown), and is in contact with the IC chip 3 via the antenna 3b described above in a non-contact manner. Personal data is written. In addition, the contents of medical practice performed on the patient, the biological information of the patient, and the like are also appropriately written in the memory 3a. The personal data written in the memory 3a is appropriately read out to the portable information terminal 4 and displayed on the display unit 4a, and presented to a medical worker such as a doctor or nurse carrying the portable information terminal 4. .
[0015]
Note that data communication between the IC chip 3 and the data writing device or the portable information terminal 4, specifically, writing of personal data to the memory 3 a by the data writing device, or the memory 3 a by the portable information terminal 4 is performed. The personal data written in is read out in a non-contact manner by securing a communication distance of about 10 to 20 cm using, for example, a 13.56 MHz frequency band by an electromagnetic induction method.
[0016]
Therefore, the IC chip 3 having such a function is a structure that can be sterilized and disinfected by heating and / or cleaning, particularly by coating the entire surface of the IC chip body with a resin material 5 having heat resistance and corrosion resistance. It has been realized. The IC chip 3 may be realized as a structure in which the IC chip body is sealed in a flat container (not shown) made of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant resin material 5 or molded with the resin material 5. . When the IC chip 3 is removed from the wristband 1 described above, the IC chip 3 is sterilized and disinfected by heating and / or washing, and the IC chip 3 is sterilized and disinfected. By erasing the write data and performing the initialization process, it can be reused by being incorporated in another new wristband 1.
[0017]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a usage pattern of the medical management tag having the above-described structure and a reuse pattern of the IC chip 3. The usage pattern of the medical management tag will be described with reference to this flowchart. The medical management tag is manufactured by incorporating the IC chip 3 in the wristband 1 in the tag manufacturing factory 10 and delivered to a medical institution. The tag manufacturing factory 10 manufactures a plurality of types of wristbands 1 having different colors or different lengths for adults, children, and newborns.
[0018]
Therefore, medical institutions use medical management tags of wristbands 1 of different colors according to medical subjects such as internal medicine and surgery, and attach medical management tags to each hospitalized patient for medical management. Use. Specifically, first, using the data input terminal (data writing device) described above, personal data such as the patient's name, age, sex, blood type, etc. is written in the IC chip 3 according to the inpatient (procedure 11). ). At the same time, personal information such as the name, age, sex, blood type, etc. of the inpatient is written on the aforementioned label portion 2 of the wristband 1 incorporating the IC chip 3. The description of the personal information on the label unit 2 and the writing of the personal information on the IC chip 3 are performed while confirming that both pieces of information are the same.
[0019]
The tag for medical management in which personal data is written in this way is issued to inpatients (including newborns), and to the IC chip 3 and the label unit 2 with the inpatient or his attendant (guardian). The written information (description information) is confirmed (visually recognized), and after personal identification (authentication) is performed, the information is attached to the hospitalized patient (procedure 12). At this time, the medical subject of the inpatient is also checked from the color of the wristband 1 at the same time.
[0020]
Thus, if a tag for medical management is attached to an inpatient, a medical worker consisting of a doctor or a nurse confirms the personal information described in the label portion 2 when performing a subsequent operation or medical administration. Then, the personal data written in the IC chip 3 is read each time using the portable information terminal 4, and the patient is personally identified (authenticated), and then the above-mentioned medical operations such as surgery and pharmaceutical administration are performed (procedure 13). ). At this time, the biometric information of the patient and the medical practice performed on the patient are sequentially recorded as a history on the IC chip 3, and the medical practice is performed after the recorded information is read from the IC chip 3 and confirmed. It is also useful to do so. In this way, it is possible to perform an accurate medical practice that is managed separately from the patient and does not depend on the medical chart that is matched to the patient each time. In other words, since it is possible to perform collation (individual identification) between the chart and the patient, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of mistakes due to the mistake of the charts. Further, if the information written in the IC chip 3 is periodically collected in the host computer, it is possible to collate with the medical treatment action described in the medical chart.
[0021]
On the other hand, when the hospitalized patient is discharged, as described above, the wristband 1 is cut using scissors or the like, and the wristband 1 is destroyed to remove the medical management tag from the patient (procedure 14). Then, after removing the IC chip 3 from the wristband 1 of the medical management tag removed from the patient (procedure 15), the wristband 1 is discarded (procedure 16). Incidentally, the IC chip 3 is taken out from the wristband 1 by breaking the pocket portion described above. In particular, since the IC chip 3 is only housed and enclosed in the pocket portion, it can be easily taken out simply by breaking the pocket portion.
[0022]
The IC chip 3 taken out from the wristband 1 is sterilized and disinfected by heating and washing (procedure 17), and then recorded in the memory 3a using the data input terminal (data writing device) described above. The patient's personal data is deleted (procedure 18). That is, the IC chip 3 taken out from the wristband 1 is sterilized and disinfected, and the recorded information in the memory 3a is erased to initialize the IC chip 3. The initialization (deletion of personal data) of the IC chip 3 prevents inadvertent leakage of inpatient personal information.
[0023]
Note that all of the information recorded on the IC chip 3 may be erased before the IC chip 3 is taken out from the wristband 1, that is, at the stage where the wristband 1 is cut and removed from the patient. In this way, for example, the personal information of the patient can be erased before outsourcing the operation of taking out the IC chip 3 from the wristband 1 to an outside contractor, so that the integrity of the data can be sufficiently enhanced. It becomes possible.
[0024]
Thereafter, the functions of the IC chip 3 are checked (procedure 19), and those having a functional failure are discarded, and those having no functional failure are collected as a reusable IC chip 3 and the above-described tag. Delivered to the manufacturing plant 10. If the IC chip 3 is built in another new wristband 1, it can be used in the same manner as when a new IC chip 3 is used. Therefore, the IC chip 3 is incorporated in another new wristband 1 and is repeatedly reused when it is taken out from the wristband 1 or unless a problem occurs due to sterilization / disinfection by heating and washing.
[0025]
Particularly in this embodiment, as described above, the IC chip 3 is only housed in the pocket portion of the wristband 1 and incorporated in the medical management tag. Therefore, the IC chip 3 can be easily taken out from the wristband 1 and the possibility of damaging the IC chip 3 when taking out from the wristband 1 is extremely low. Moreover, as described above, the IC chip 3 is realized as a structure that can be sterilized and disinfected by heating and / or washing by coating the entire surface of the IC chip body with the resin material 5 having heat resistance and corrosion resistance. ing. Therefore, since it can sufficiently withstand high-temperature heating and sterilization / disinfection treatment using chemicals, it is possible to sufficiently satisfy the hygiene management conditions for repeated use of the IC chip 3. Therefore, since the relatively expensive IC chip 3 can be easily used repeatedly and incorporated into another new wristband 1, personal identification (authentication) of an inpatient is performed using a medical management tag. It is possible to greatly reduce the running cost of the vehicle.
[0026]
The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above. For example, the wristband 1 can be a vinyl-coated paper material or the like. Further, as a means for fixing the wristband 1 in a ring shape, it is also possible to use a plastic connecting member that is kind to the skin. Further, the storage capacity of the memory 3a in the IC chip 3 and the information content to be written into the memory 3a may be determined according to medical management specifications and the like, and data between the IC chip 3 and a predetermined external device. Various information transmission methods can be adopted for the communication means.
[0027]
Further, the data recording function of the IC chip 3 may be used to manage the number of times the IC chip 3 is used repeatedly, and the IC chip 3 that has been used repeatedly a predetermined number of times or more may be discarded. In this way, the operational reliability of the IC chip 3 can be managed, so that a more reliable medical management tag can be used. In addition, the present invention can be variously modified and implemented without departing from the scope of the invention.
[0028]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a medical management tag having a structure in which an IC chip is a sterilizable / disinfectable structure and the IC chip is built in the wristband so that it can be easily taken out. In addition to being able to effectively perform personal identification (authentication) of hospitalized patients using this medical management tag, when the wristband is cut and the wristband is removed from the hospitalized patient, the IC chip is listed It can be easily removed from the band, sterilized and disinfected, and then incorporated into another wristband for reuse. Therefore, it is possible to repeatedly use a relatively expensive IC chip, and it is possible to achieve practically great effects such as a significant reduction in running cost.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a medical management tag according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a manner in which the medical management tag shown in FIG. 1 is attached to the wrist.
FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram showing basic functions of an IC chip incorporated in the medical management tag shown in FIG. 1;
4 is a flowchart showing a usage pattern of the medical management tag shown in FIG. 1 and a reuse pattern of the IC chip 3. FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Wristband 2 Label 3 IC chip 5 Resin material with heat and corrosion resistance

Claims (3)

A wristband wound around a patient's wrist or ankle, fixed in an annular shape and permanently attached to the patient, and removed from the patient due to its destruction and disposable
A label that is provided on the wristband and includes patient information including the patient's name;
An IC chip body integrated with a memory and an antenna is entirely coated or encapsulated with a heat and corrosion resistant material, and the patient's personal data is written into the memory built in the wristband , and through the antenna. An IC chip capable of outputting the personal data to a predetermined external device;
With sealed and accommodating the IC chip in the pocket portion provided on the wristband, the fact that the IC chip is provided so as to be taken out to sterilization and disinfection of the wristband by destroying the pocket Characteristic medical management tag. 2. The IC chip taken out from the wristband is sterilized and disinfected, erased its write data and initialized, and then incorporated into another wristband and reused. The tag for medical management described. The medical management tag according to claim 1, wherein the IC chip has a function of storing the number of times of repeated use, and the reuse is managed according to the number of times of repeated use .

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